Educational Resources and Downloads for Schools

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This page looks in more detail at the Key Learning Outcomes for our core activities, contains information about the linked learning that can be taken from our activities and applied to the curriculum and has downloads for many of the resources we use to support our amazing programmes.

The Outdoors People are very passionate about linking our programmes into the curriculum and helping as many schools as possible see an amazing impact on students after our camps. If you have some great ideas or resources that you would be happy for us to share here for other schools to make use of then please let us know.

We also adapt our programmes and activities to your needs, so if there's something specific you would us to talk about so that you can refer to it in class then please let us know when you complete your schools Camp Creation form or contact us.

This part of the website is currently being expanded, so check back for more updates soon!

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We put a lot of work into making the resources we use for our camps and upload them here for the schools we work with to use in any way they like.

However, we are also very happy for other schools, charities and even commercial organisations to make use of our resources. We just ask that you leave them unmodified, give credit to The Outdoors People and provide links back to our website on your website.

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Water Purification

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During a water purification session, the children will build a water filter to clean extremely muddy water and then boil it to make it safe to drink. They will advance a number of social and personal development outcomes and also learn about:

The three things that can make water unsafe to drink and how to remove them:

Solid materials that could hurt you, like soil or twigs, can be removed by passing them through the layers of a filter, in this case, gravel, sand and kitchen roll.

Bacteria and other living things can be killed by boiling the water for two minutes.

Harmful chemicals can be removed by filtering the water through charcoal. They will learn that charcoal is made out of carbon and learn that carbon is a very "grabby" material. They also learn about carbon as part of the fire triangle in "Bug-Buns and Blazes!" and "Friction Firelighting."

Areas of learning that could be expanded upon in a classroom environment might include:

The water cycle

Microorganisms

Water supplies in developing economies (hand-to-mouth existence, lack of resources, lack of formal education) and discussion about how the Survival Triangle might be viewed differently post industrial economies.